A reminder of past crisis that our country endured...
I know what you’re going to say, “This is different,” “That was then, this is now.” –No it was really bad back in 1941 – we were just starting to come out of a severe depression when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor. Our military was in shambles. The enemy was at our door step and there was a war raging in Europe, requesting our help. Our president comes on the scene and says calm down, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” – These were strong words by our leader in whom we would follow into the gates of hell.
The people, the corporations all came together into one united cause. We only had a few ships to fight with. The Japanese could have taken Pearl Harbor but they didn’t because they were not aware of just how devastating their attack was. We eventually broke their code, so now we knew where they were but they did not know where were because we were using the Navaho language in communications. This really helped us because it afforded us enough time to build an armada of ships. At the battle of Midway the war turned, we were now the offensive force.
The point I am trying to make here is our country was fully united. We were not red and we were not blue, we were red white and blue, and if we do not come together the only color left will be white, and we all know what white means.
First we need a strong, smart person to lead us who we can trust and follow. And that fear will not be his battle cry.
Let’s try to get everyone to vote. If you do not vote your really not an American; at least not in my opinion. (That’s part of being Red, White and Blue!)
I personally feel fear and greed got us into this mess – and a lot of bad decisions on the part of our leaders – which we all realize now. We can’t wave a magic wand and expect red, white and blue to come together.
We have to look at how this country became great.
It was the people who came during the early 1900s from all over the world. The great inventors – the Thomas Edison’s, the Henry Ford’s, the Alexander Graham Bell’s, the Eli Whitney’s, and the Wright Brothers. We opened the door of technology to the world and the world loved us.
This is not true today, we have more enemies then friends.
I personally feel a lot of it started by attacking Iraq. To me, that’s like Japan attacking us and we attack Mexico. I could never understand that, which again, was based on fear.
Remember folks, fear is our worst enemy and so is greed.
I also think that this proposed “Bail Out” is based on fear and greed.
If we want to solve the problems we currently face, we will have to believe in and back our new leaders.
During my generation our humorous person was Will Rogers, in who I really liked. One of his famous sayings was, “If we allowed world leaders to fight our wars, there will be no wars.” I believe there is some truth to that.
Jerry Kass – From the Greatest Generation
P.S. Read my poem, “Being an American.”
The people, the corporations all came together into one united cause. We only had a few ships to fight with. The Japanese could have taken Pearl Harbor but they didn’t because they were not aware of just how devastating their attack was. We eventually broke their code, so now we knew where they were but they did not know where were because we were using the Navaho language in communications. This really helped us because it afforded us enough time to build an armada of ships. At the battle of Midway the war turned, we were now the offensive force.
The point I am trying to make here is our country was fully united. We were not red and we were not blue, we were red white and blue, and if we do not come together the only color left will be white, and we all know what white means.
First we need a strong, smart person to lead us who we can trust and follow. And that fear will not be his battle cry.
Let’s try to get everyone to vote. If you do not vote your really not an American; at least not in my opinion. (That’s part of being Red, White and Blue!)
I personally feel fear and greed got us into this mess – and a lot of bad decisions on the part of our leaders – which we all realize now. We can’t wave a magic wand and expect red, white and blue to come together.
We have to look at how this country became great.
It was the people who came during the early 1900s from all over the world. The great inventors – the Thomas Edison’s, the Henry Ford’s, the Alexander Graham Bell’s, the Eli Whitney’s, and the Wright Brothers. We opened the door of technology to the world and the world loved us.
This is not true today, we have more enemies then friends.
I personally feel a lot of it started by attacking Iraq. To me, that’s like Japan attacking us and we attack Mexico. I could never understand that, which again, was based on fear.
Remember folks, fear is our worst enemy and so is greed.
I also think that this proposed “Bail Out” is based on fear and greed.
If we want to solve the problems we currently face, we will have to believe in and back our new leaders.
During my generation our humorous person was Will Rogers, in who I really liked. One of his famous sayings was, “If we allowed world leaders to fight our wars, there will be no wars.” I believe there is some truth to that.
Jerry Kass – From the Greatest Generation
P.S. Read my poem, “Being an American.”
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